Interview with Bob Daisley on unreleased Randy rehearsals!

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I took large parts of the interview, on topics about Randy and Ozzy.
For the complete interview go http://www.bravewords.com/news/162794

BraveWords.com: Recently on the BraveWords.com Facebook page, they asked who Bob Daisley was and the most common response was "genius" or "legend".

Bob Daisley: "Wow, that's fantastic. It's really amazing. It's really an honour for me to hear stories like those. I mean, how the lyrics started out, was I had written things before but I had not regarded myself as a lyricist or anything but it was really; well, necessity is the mother of invention and Randy (Rhoads) wasn't a lyricist and Ozzy hadn't written any lyrics in Black Sabbath. Lee Kerslake has written some songs himself, but he himself said he was not a good lyricist. I remember coming down one morning when we were rehearsing and writing and auditioning drummers, before Lee was in the band and Ozzy and Randy had tried to put some lyrics together, but I read them and thought this was so SPINAL TAP, I mean, they were awful. (laughs) I mean, Spinal Tap was not out yet, but they were corny and cheesy lyrics. I just thought to myself that I had better write the lyrics. Ozzy was good at vocal melodies and obviously Randy was a genius guitar player, so I did the lyrics. Well, I co-wrote a lot of the music with Randy. A lot of the classic riffs, well, those are Randy's but we put the songs together musically. And then Ozzy came up with the melodies and I wrote the lyrics to them. It was a combined effort and I think it was all meant to happen, I mean it seems that way."

BraveWords.com: I don't think many people are aware of how big a hand you had in Ozzy's career.

BraveWords.com: I can't help but imagine what an album featuring Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley and Ronnie James Dio would have sounded like?

Bob Daisley: (laughs). "Well, I don't know. The way it all came together, I mean, we all drew the best out of each other. It worked. Including Ozzy, his melodies and personality and chemistry and vibes. It all sort of fitted together. If you had changed the equation, taken out one of the components and put a different one in, it may not have worked. I mean, sometimes things may look good on paper, but when you get people into a room and there's energies and chemistry it does not always work."

BraveWords.com: It's like a supergroup that fails. Everyone's got high expectations but it doesn't deliver.

Bob Daisley: "It happens time and time again. You can even hand pick people and say I'll have him because he's the best at this and I'll take him because he's the best at that and go on and on and on and put them in a room and they come up with nothing."

BraveWords.com: But the original line-up of the Blizzard Of Ozz, is by all accounts a supergroup. You have Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Rainbow and QUIET RIOT all in one band.

Bob Daisley: "Well Randy was relatively unknown because in those days, Quiet Riot could not get arrested and got turned down by every record company in America. They did get a small deal by a Japanese record company and got their record out there. Those weren't great, but Randy was a great player wherever he was. But the environment of that band did not bring out the best in him. I mean, we could see him developing in the short time we got together. Ozzy had auditioned Randy in LA. First off, there are so many bullshit stories about that where Ozzy and Randy going off on a plane to make an album in England is a load of bollocks. It didn't happen like that. I'll tell you the story of how it happened and this is the truth. Ozzy auditioned Randy in LA and thought he was great. They spent a couple of days together with Dana Strum and Frankie Banali, just to see if Randy would work. Then Ozzy went back to England and David and Don Arden of Jet Records were managing Ozzy. They wanted to keep Ozzy's new band all British. I met Ozzy at a GIRL concert in London and he told me he was getting a band together and he didn't even mention Randy Rhoads. Sharon had nothing to do with this as she was still living in America. David called me and said Ozzy wants you to come by his house if you want to play and see what's going on. So I went up there and he picked me up from the station. He had a guitarist and drummer at his house and I can't even remember their names. He has a rehearsal studio at his house. Ozzy and I came out to his kitchen, and well, Ozzy and I got along very well, and I said, 'these guys are nice guys and OK players, but not world class. If you want to get serious about this band, you will need better players.' Ozzy called Jet Records and spoke to a guy named Arthur Sharpe, the guy who introduced me to Ozzy at the Girl gig. I still remember what Ozzy said, he said, 'Bob and I get on like a house on fire and the fire brigade's just left.' (laughs). So then he started telling me about this guitarist he met in LA that taught at a music school. When he told me that, I pictured a guy with slippers, a pipe and a cardigan. (laughs). And I said, 'who's that then?' He said it was a young guy called Randy Rhoads. Well that meant nothing to me. So I put in a few suggestions to David Arden about other guitarists. I know that Gary Moore has been Ozzy's first choice as he was living in LA with his band, G-FORCE. Gary wasn't interested. He wanted to pursue his own thing. I gave David some phone numbers of other guitarists but people didn't seem that interested because I think Ozzy's reputation has been damaged by getting fired from Black Sabbath for being out of his mind and not very productive and unreliable. So anyway, it was just Ozzy and me to start. So eventually, David relented, and I mean, his words were 'ok, against my better judgement, I will fly this young kid over from LA.' (laughs). So then Ozzy and I met Randy at Jet Records office in London. Well Ozzy had obviously met Randy before in LA so he knew how he played but I had not and didn't know who he was. So the three of us caught a train up to Ozzy's place from London and we had a play together and from then on, it was working well. So we would start writing things and auditioning drummers. By the time Lee came in, all the songs had been written. He was the last drummer we had to audition. We could not find anyone we liked. Someone with enough fire and aggression and a bit of a reputation. We knew if Lee did not work out we would have to use a session drummer. Lee starting playing and Randy and I looked at the each other and said where the fuck have you been? Since all the material had been written, we wrote one more track to include Lee's song writing on the album, which was supposed to be a b-side, which was 'No Bone Movies'."

BraveWords.com: Why do you think Diary Of A Madman, and Blizzard Of Ozz are held in such high regard?

Bob Daisley: "Well I suppose they are classic of that era. Let's face it, when the band formed in 1979, the big thing at the time was disco and so called new wave of punk. People had funny hair and funny clothes. People who wore leather and denim and wanted to play hard rock were so called dinosaurs. (laughs) We didn't go into the studio with a hit record in mind, and thinking what's in vogue, and let's play this way with these instruments and write a hit song that's good for these times. It was basically, what do we love and what are we good at and let's just do that and that's what we did."

BraveWords.com: Don Airey was on the BRUCE DICKINSON Rock Hour on the BBC and said you were a huge part of the song-writing process.

Bob Daisley: "Well that's it; it does make a difference when people get the information from someone else who was there. When Sharon and Ozzy tell the story, they have both tried to rewrite history and it's inaccurate and it's not how it happened. To start, Sharon was not even there for the first album. Ozzy said Sharon used to come to the pub with us when we were doing the first record. She wasn't there as it's a long fucking way to come from LA as that's where she was living. She had nothing to do with the first record as she wasn't there. Ozzy was still married to Thelma at the time and she used to come to the pub."

BraveWords.com: In the trailer for the reissues she says recording those two albums were some of the best experiences of both her and Ozzy's life. So if she wasn't there, that's an inaccurate statement.

Bob Daisley: "Big time, big time."

BraveWords.com: Have you seen the trailer?

Bob Daisley: "I have and the little bits of other people saying they try time and time again to rewrite history. Lee and I were not consulted, not asked to do anything. I have even read that some fans said they were uninterested in what Ozzy and Sharon have to say, they want to hear what Lee and I have to say. You're not going to get us in it as the Osbourne's are involved."

BraveWords.com: You've mentioned that you have rehearsal tapes and writing tapes and other historical audio documents of those years. Can those be released?

Bob Daisley: "It's a legal issue with somebody's performance. You have to get them to sign off on their performance. I have Ozzy singing and Randy playing and I have to say, fans of that music would love this stuff. Even though the actual quality is not bad but not studio quality. I went to my manager who went to their representative, and told them I had all of these recordings of rehearsals, writing sessions, songs that no has heard, sections that did not get used tonnes of stuff. For the 30th anniversary, why not do a deal and release all this stuff. But they didn't want to do it. All Sharon wanted to do was to buy everything for a measly sum and then release it. I said no way, this stuff's gold. You either do it my way, meaning I get a royalty this time, but I should have always got a royalty. They wouldn't do it. I said I am not handing it over to you to make a fortune. The main reason was they could have edited it, taken us out of it again or pieced it together and go about rewriting history once again. Ozzy and Randy did everything is what they will have you believe. It's too bad this unreleased stuff that I have has been unheard by anyone for 30 years."

BraveWords.com: I keep hearing how Randy built Ozzy's career and no matter how brilliant a guitarist Randy was, there were still four people who wrote and recorded those records.

Bob Daisley: "There were four people in that band and it was the chemistry of those four people that made it what it was. We all brought out the best in each other. Ozzy's career would have been washed up because he had lost a lot of credibility for being unreliable and out of his mind. Randy could not get arrested in America with his band Quiet Riot. Lee could not get his band, BLIND AMBITION off the ground and I had been looking and was fucking worried if my career was over. So the four of us came together and helped each other. And it was a situation we encourage each other and you could feel it. All this crap about Randy Rhoads single handed saved Ozzy's career, well, he didn't. And all due respect and credit to Randy for being a brilliant player and he was nothing short of amazing and very, very talented but it took the four people to make those albums and they weren't solo albums by Ozzy the artist. A band was recording those albums and that band was called the BLIZZARD OF OZZ."

BraveWords.com: I have seen promotional photos from Jet Records of the Blizzard Of Ozz as the artist.

Bob Daisley: "Certainly. I have press clippings and promo photos and all kinds of stuff which is all in my book about a band called The Blizzard Of Ozz. Randy and I started the whole thing about having a band name even before Lee joined. We wanted a band name and Ozzy didn't care because Ozzy was Ozzy, even though the record company wanted THE OZZY OSBOURNE BAND or let's just call it Ozzy. But Randy and I were like, no way, we are doing too much here. We are writing and arranging the songs and then producing the album between us so we are not going to be a backing band to someone who is doing less than us."

BraveWords.com: So essentially, with you and Randy being the main musical force in the band, could it be said that you two helped create the signature Ozzy Osbourne sound?

Bob Daisley: "Well, I like to be fair, and the overall sound would have not been the same without Ozzy. You see he had the vocal melodies, which were strong. And the sound of his voice is pretty unique, but he's not the best singer in the world, but he got his own sound. With Lee Kerslake coming in, he was a catalyst. He helped gel the four piece puzzle. It's a bit like when THE BEATLES were forming; they didn't become the Beatles until they had Ringo Starr. Now Ringo may not have been a virtuoso, but they didn't really become the Beatles until he joined. But when I say catalyst, I don't necessarily mean by their playing ability but maybe through their energy, personality and chemistry. And Lee was just as important as the other three."

BraveWords.com: When the Osbourne's removed your and Lee's performances from Blizzard and Diary it was perceived as dishonest and unwanted tampering with perfection. The Blizzard CD reissue even featured an alternate back cover that was portrayed as the original back cover, even though your photo and Randy's photo were removed. This was clearly misleading.

Bob Daisley: "Of course it was a lie. The whole reissues from 2002 were a lie. There was nothing telling the consumers that it was not the same product. People were buying it and taking it home and saying 'what the hell is this? I don't like this. This is not what I paid for.' Of course it was insulting. We were suing them for unpaid royalties at the time and of course, we expected to get insulted somehow as they wanted to get back at us, but to insult the public and insult the memory of Randy Rhoads is wrong. To insult music is wrong because those two albums put Ozzy where he is. They have been the foundation for his career. And then he goes and messes with them. Magic only happens once and it was captured in time on those records. You can't mess with stuff like that."

BraveWords.com: Which album do you think is better?

Bob Daisley: "Well, Diary, by then, we had toured together and knew each other better and Lee completed the picture. We had developed a style and a sound. The thing with Diary, was that it was rushed a little. Blizzard had a bit of spontaneity as Lee was only in the band a week when we recorded it. All the dates of that time frame are in my book. Diary being rushed, well sometimes you can say you can rub the shine off something. Sometimes being rushed is a good thing. I feel real honoured that 30 years later people still speak so highly of it. It's always been an ambition of mine since I was young. I remember being in a car in the UK with Rainbow and saying to Ronnie James Dio and Bruce Payne, their manager. I was asked about my ambitions and I said that one day, I would like to be part of something from the ground floor up that makes a big splash or a big hit. Something that was really, really special almost iconic status if you will. And I did."

BraveWords.com: What goes through your mind when you hear 'Crazy Train'? On the radio or at a football game which has become Ozzy's signature tune, considering your involvement.

Bob Daisley: "When I think of that conversation with Ronnie and Bruce, it's that song that comes to mind. It has become a signature tune for Ozzy. The other thing that comes to mind is that he gets too much credit for it! Randy had the riff and chord structure, I wrote the chord structure for Randy to solo over. Ozzy came up with the vocal melody, and I wrote all the lyrics. Randy and I were both fans of trains and railways. We bought models and stuff and go to railway exhibitions together. Ozzy used to have a saying 'you're off the fucking rails' and Randy had this effects pedal and it was making this sort of psychedelic chugging sound, like a train in his amp. And that's when I came up with 'Crazy Train'. With Ozzy's saying, that's where I'm going off the rails on a crazy train came from. The lyrics were a statement of the world we live in or lived in as a child, the cold war we lived through."

BraveWords.com: You received a songwriter's award for that song a few years back didn't you? In London?

Bob Daisley: "Yes. They had some photos of us playing on stage when I was with Ozzy. I received the award and that was it."

BraveWords.com: Did Ozzy get an award or Randy?

Bob Daisley: "I don't know."

BraveWords.com: Why were you singled out?

Bob Daisley: "I don't know." (laughs)

BraveWords.com: I know you've been asked this many times but what was your first impression of Randy Rhoads as a person and as a musician?

Bob Daisley: "I first thought, is this guy gay? (laughs) He had fitted clothes and his hair was perfect. His nails were a bit long and all trimmed and manicured. Ozzy and I looked at each other and said 'is this guy gay?' We soon found out he was just one of the boys. He was a little effeminate at first, but there was no way Randy was gay. After playing together with Ozzy that one night after we met, I had this premonition that one day, people would repeatedly ask me what it was like to play with Randy Rhoads and I didn't know why. I mean, it's obvious now. At the time, when I only met the guy the day before, I didn't know why I had that feeling. Sadly, very accurate."

BraveWords.com: I read you were very impressed with his playing.

Bob Daisley: "After we played for the first time, Randy and I both looked at each other and said 'I like the way you play.' And Kelle Rhoads, Randy's brother can verify that. Kelle said when Randy came back to LA, he told Kelle that we both said it simultaneously."

BraveWords.com: Was anything filmed? I remember seeing footage of a birthday party with Randy in it?

Bob Daisley: "It was Don Arden's birthday party. It was his 55th birthday party in January 1981. At Jet Records. We were all there. I remember Lee Kerslake looked into the camera, and said Happy Birthday Don, where's me fucking check? Nothing other than that of that line-up was filmed to the best of my knowledge. Small portable camcorders had not been invented yet."

BraveWords.com: At least Rainbow filmed a whole show with Ronnie and you. Probably the most bootlegged concert video in history.

Bob Daisley: "It was my manager Drew Thompson who got that released on DVD in 2005. Was great to see it finally released."

BraveWords.com: Back to Randy, how would you like to see Randy Rhoads remembered?

Bob Daisley: "I don't think he will ever be forgotten. When he left us, it was very, very sad. It was heartbreaking. His mom was very close to him. She did not want to see his name die with him and I think she will have her wish granted. Randy's name will live on because of his work during his brief stay. That's the way to remember him as a very dedicated musician who was very talented and unique. He developed his own style and sound even though he did have his influences, Ritchie Blackmore, MICK RONSON and others. I think he achieved what he wanted to in that time frame."

BraveWords.com: On the Ozzy album Tribute, there are two songs that you appear on supposedly, but you didn't get credited either.

Bob Daisley: "I knew of it when it came out but I didn't really want to listen to that line-up of Rudy Sarzo and Tommy Aldridge. It was years later that I found out that two songs were taken from a show we did in the UK. We didn't get credited or paid. My book goes into so much detail about Randy Rhoads. Things that have never been told."

BraveWords.com: Speaking of the Tribute album, how well do you think Rudy Sarzo played what you wrote?

Bob Daisley: "I mean Rudy was a competent bass player. I don't know the guy that well, though I have met him a couple of times. Ozzy said that he was fine playing what someone else had written, but not good at writing. Ozzy got me back to write again from scratch."

BraveWords.com: Rudy was once asked about you and he said that you wrote some amazing bass lines but your image was lacking. I actually saw that as unintentional compliment.

Bob Daisley: "The band, when we first started off, we didn't want to be a glam band. But when they went to America and got Tommy Aldridge and Rudy Sarzo, Ozzy and Randy started wearing makeup. They looked like hookers. (laughs). We were more along the lines of LED ZEPPELIN, with our image. Lee had a beard and was sort of a burly, bigger sort of guy like John Bonham. We didn't wear makeup but we did have leather and denim. In the early stages of the Blizzard Of Ozz, we looked good. I don't know what Rudy Sarzo is on about but I didn't want to look like a glam pop star anyway."

BraveWords.com: So what do you like or what do you consider classic?

Bob Daisley: "Some of THE BEATLES and early Led Zeppelin are great. Still sounds fresh. Jeff Beck's first album Truth is great also. Some great playing on there. I was into his earlier work when it was just Jeff's more bluesy stuff. With ROD STEWART and Ron Wood on bass. Loved both of them on that record. I love THE FACES. I even have Ronnie Lane's old bass. They were a little sloppy and sounded drunk but that was part of the charm. It's loose and it's good times. I loved the Faces for that."

BraveWords.com: A few years ago I listened to Diary Of A Madman and Blizzard Of Ozz to hear your bass lines only. I thought they were incredibly infectious. Since you have influenced many with your style, who influenced you and how would you describe the Bob Daisley sound?

Bob Daisley: "My style I suppose came from having an aggressive approach. I was influenced by Jack Bruce and people like that. For the melodic part, I would have to say PAUL MCCARTNEY and another guy called Willie Weeks who played with Donny Hathaway. He was a funky player with great tone and great note choice, very tasteful. And a little bit of Ron Wood from the Jeff Beck Group. Aggressive melodic would by my style."

BraveWords.com: Was asked to ask you this. How does Randy Rhoads differ from Gary Moore in terms of writing and playing? I do know they were fans of each other.

Bob Daisley: "Gary thought very highly of Randy and Randy was very impressed with Gary. I remember going to a gig with Gary and Randy to go to see Rainbow play with Sharon at Donington I think it was. And to some degree, would say that Gary influenced Randy to some extent. Different styles in terms of writing. Gary came from the more blues based style of writing and Randy had the classical influence. This gave him a different, extra dimension, coming from a music school with a classically trained mother, Delores. I think that's what gave him the edge with coming up with good song ideas and something a little different. He had the blues dimension but the classical also. That's the difference between Gary and Randy.

BraveWords.com: There is a newer trailer for the Blizzard / Diary re-issues and they had Ozzy, Sharon Osbourne, Rob Halford, Bill Ward, Zakk Wylde, Steve Vai and other people all commenting on those albums, but there was no mention of you or Lee.

Bob Daisley: "It's always like that. After Lee (Kerslake) and I sued them it's been even more so. And it's not fair to the fans. The Osbourne's won't recognize or admit it's true. They dislike the fact that, through my lyrics, I had a big hand in creating the magic and image that is Ozzy Osbourne. They've always tried to hide that. I remember at the time, Jake (E. Lee)'s publishing and mine had some difficulties so we could not have our name on due to the three different publishing companies. So we opted for a buyout and that's why it says - 'All songs by Ozzy Osbourne.' This of course, is not true. Ozzy did an interview with International Musician magazine, back in '83 or '84, they asked him how he wrote those songs and he said with one finger on a piano. What a joke. The whole thing was ridiculous. Most people take it for granted that if someone is singing lyrics, that they wrote them. The thing with the re-issues is that they have left us out yet again but why are people buying these albums? They already had them with Ozzy and Randy Rhoads and two different people and nobody wanted them. I mean, they still sold to ignorant people. When I say ignorant I mean to people who didn't know what they were buying or were unaware of the truth. Now people will be lining up to buy them and why is that? Because our original performances have been reinstated. In effect, they are really buying those albums for Lee and I. But we don't even get a mention."

BraveWords.com: I remember you saying that a gig in Southampton from the fall of 1980 was recorded.

Bob Daisley: "I remember the truck coming to the gig to record the show as Jet Records wanted a song that was not on the album, to release on an EP that had not already been used as a B-Side. They wanted a live 'Mr.Crowley' and a new song. So we wrote 'You Said It All'. I will tell you how that was written Randy had a basic riff. Randy and I put together a chord structure that afternoon in soundcheck. Lee got a mike, as he could sing, and Lee came up with the vocal melody while Ozzy was asleep under the drum riser. That was his contribution to that song. Ozzy did absolutely fuck all with that song. Nothing. Yet he still gets a credit on it. I took a tape of Lee's melody back to the hotel and wrote the lyrics in the hotel room. It was a big rush. Get it done quick, we want this you know? We then recorded it at the gig before the audience came in. So yeah, it was recorded live, no audience but the audience noise was added later from that night. Because it was a new song, we didn't want to include it in the set as we had not played it before. And Ozzy had never sung it before as I had just written the lyrics. He was singing it from the lyric sheet and that's how it was done. I offered them all the tapes I had but I wanted artistic control over it. First of all they could edit it and make it seem like it was all Randy and Ozzy again. I wanted control over how it was used or how it was put together and I really didn't want it edited at all because warts and all, it's classic historic stuff. You can hear us coming up with ideas, re-arranging stuff and editing stuff. Some parts of songs are removed but it was good so it ended up being another song. And I have all that on tape and I offered that to them. But Sharon just wanted to pay me off and be like 'here take this and fuck off.' And I said no. If I can't have artistic control over it and don't get a royalty, you ain't fucking having it."

BraveWords.com: They missed a golden opportunity.

Bob Daisley: "It's classic stuff and no one get's to hear it. It's been 30 years now. I mean, it's got mistakes in it; I mean Ozzy's voice cracks and Randy makes mistakes and I make mistakes and Lee makes mistakes, but that's what it's all about. We were experimenting and writing. It's classic stuff and I would love for people to hear it."

BraveWords.com: So you were out of the band in March of '81?

Bob Daisley: "Yeah, that's right. I remember Randy calling me in early April and saying how sorry he was that I was no longer in the band. You see, he didn't want a new band to go on the road and he knew he would lose power by having two sidemen with him and it wasn't his idea. He did ask Ozzy if he could have Rudy Sarzo on bass as Ozzy had fired me and he didn't want to see Lee go either. So Randy phoned me up and said I'm sorry it's turned out like this and that it wasn't his idea. His brother Kelle, will back that story up also. Kelle said that Randy did not want us to go, but it was out of his hands."

[SanDimasCharvel]

Wow, that's a great read.

"Songs no one has heard"....wow.

I'm looking forward to his book.

Thanks for posting that!

[halo8th]

I can't wait to get his book. This is should be one of the best rock books ever written, along with Rudy's.
It's amazing how many lies that come from the Osbournes that just keep appearing. These are beyond just "good business" decisions, they are real slimes.

[The One]

Great interview. Thanks for posting.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The O$bournes will never see a penny of my money again.

I can't wait for the new box set to be torrented...

[GUITARIDOL5682]

Thanks for posting that interview... So Randy was at the Monsters of Rock festival in 1980 at Donington Cool gig. It's good to see that Bob's book is going to include stories of Randy that have not been told before ... I'm sure this book will be an excellent read.

[scooterh67]

Thanks for posting that, an excellent interview and I enjoyed reading it! Bob had some very interesting things to say and I can't wait to read his book when it comes out!!

Scott

[Matlike]

Hmm, I always liked The Ultmate Sin, and heard Ozzy say it was a one of his best albums so go figure...and I always liked the playing especially Randy Castillio's drums I always thought they were tight..."shrugs"

[Geo Sav]

Thanks for putting that up.

[fortress]

Hmm, I always liked The Ultmate Sin, and heard Ozzy say it was a one of his best albums so go figure...and I always liked the playing especially Randy Castillio's drums I always thought they were tight..."shrugs"

huh??? Ozzy never said ultimate sin was his best!! ITs a fact that he dislike this album

[kokohi5]

Hmm, I always liked The Ultmate Sin, and heard Ozzy say it was a one of his best albums so go figure...and I always liked the playing especially Randy Castillio's drums I always thought they were tight..."shrugs"

huh??? Ozzy never said ultimate sin was his best!! ITs a fact that he dislike this album

I remember reading Ozzy interviews just before it came out where he said it was his best . I'm sure he was just trying to get people to buy it and $haron probably told him exactly what to say.

[halo8th]

yep. i don't know if Ozzy hated that album, but has said on multiple occasions it was his worst. With disdain, he considered it a "pop" top 40 effort.

[Lara Coimbra]

BraveWords.com: You've mentioned that you have rehearsal tapes and writing tapes and other historical audio documents of those years. Can those be released?

Bob Daisley: "I have Ozzy singing and Randy playing and I have to say, fans of that music would love this stuff. Even though the actual quality is not bad but not studio quality. I went to my manager who went to their representative, and told them I had all of these recordings of rehearsals, writing sessions, songs that no has heard, sections that did not get used tonnes of stuff. For the 30th anniversary, why not do a deal and release all this stuff. But they didn't want to do it. All Sharon wanted to do was to buy everything for a measly sum and then release it. I said no way, this stuff's gold."

Too bad.
In my opinion is not just the money that worries Sharon. I think that's too emotionally heavy for her and mainly for Ozzy.
The first step of releasing this material was the boxset. All they need is a good dialogue with Bob, I mean, it's a shame being someone's "enemy" for such long time.

[Lara Coimbra]

oops, I forgot to tell that I think Sharon and Ozzy wouldn't release it. At least not soon

[rokket]

Honestly I think the main reason that Sharon doesn't want Bob's rehearsal tapes released is that it would blow the theory and long time story of "Ozzy and Randy wrote everything"....out the window......You'd get to hear the proof.

[Jazznroll]

Cheers for sharing, nice nuggets of info, book should be coming along this year finger crossed.